Dombalagian CV Onnig H. Dombalagian
- George Denègre Professor of Law
- odombala@tulane.edu
- Weinmann Hall, Room 230D
- 504-865-5968
Education
- JD, cum laude, 1995, Harvard Law School
- AB in computer science, summa cum laude, 1992, Harvard College
Biography
Onnig Dombalagian specializes in U.S. and international regulation of securities and derivatives markets and the relationship of federal and state law in the governance of public companies.
Professor Dombalagian joined the Tulane Law School faculty in 2003 and served as the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs from 2016–2020. He previously served as an attorney fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as an associate in Cleary Gottlieb's Washington D.C. office. Professor Dombalagian clerked for the Hon. J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upon graduating from law school.
Professor Dombalagian has served as a member of FINRA's National Adjudicatory Council and currently serves as an arbitrator with FINRA Dispute Resolution.
He received the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 and was a visiting professor at the American University of Armenia in 2000.
Selected Publications
Book
Chasing the Tape: Information Law and Policy in Capital Markets, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2015
Book Chapters
“Best Execution: An Impossible Dream?” (working title), inThe Cambridge Handbook of Investor Protection (Arthur B. Laby ed., Cambridge University Press forthcoming)
“Securities and Derivatives Exchanges in the United States: Market and Ownership Structures,” in Financial Market Infrastructure: Law and Regulation (Jens-Hinrich Binder and Paolo Saguato eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming)
“Transnational Capital Market Regulation and the Role of the Stock Exchange”
in Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalization
(Günther Handl & Joachim Zekoll eds., Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff 2012)
Articles
Texas Gulf Sulphur and Information Disclosure Policy, 71 SMU L. Rev. 713 (2018)
Preserving Human Agency in Automated Compliance, 11 Brooklyn J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L. 71 (2016)
Substance and Semblance in Investor Protection, 40 J. Corp. L. 599 (2015)
Principles for Publicness, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 649 (2015)
The Volcker Rule and Regulatory Complementarity, 10 Capital Markets L.J. 469 (Oxford 2015)
Exchanges, Listless?: The Disintermediation of the Listing Function, 50 Wake Forest L. Rev. 579 (2015)
The Expressive Synergies of the Volcker Rule, 54 B.C. L. Rev. 469 (2013)
Proprietary Trading: Of Scourges, Scapegoats, and Scofflaws, 81 U. Cin. L. Rev. 387 (2012)
Regulating Informational Intermediation, 1 Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. 59 (2011)
Investment Recommendations and the Essence of Duty, 60 Am. U. L. Rev. 1265 (2011)
Requiem for the Bulge Bracket?: Revisiting Investment Bank Regulation, 85 Ind. L.J. 777 (2010)